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Routing Ethernet Cables

The 9th grader at Udavi volunteered to paint the new Ismart class room that is being built in the factory side of the Udavi school campus. Which joins along with the Aura Auro Design Lab. The new space required LAN connectivity. The...

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Vaughn Cube

During Maths class children were having difficulty in telling tables quickly. Our children were able to tell tables in order but it was difficult when it was random. So we started using Vaughn cube. Vaughn cube is a set of videos which...

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Engfmt(Engineering Format) Documentation

Link : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/engfmt/1.1.0 engfmt – It is a package used to read and write numbers in engineering format. In engineering format a number generally includes the units if available and uses SI scale factors to indicate the magnitude of the number. For...

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How to compress image size in Ubuntu

1. Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). 2. Install imagemagick by sudo apt-get install imagemagick 2. Go to the directory of the folder in which you want to reduce the image size. 3. Then type the following command mogrify -resize...

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Inauguration of clay room

Roof: The Roof was built with slabs that were attached together with bindings, and sealed off with some material that had become torn and corroded. Thus making rain water seep in. The solution was covering the cracks with tar sheets. Naveen had...

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(x + y + z)^3 Visualisation

Naveen and I were trying to visualise (x + y + z)^3 with Lavanya a 9th grader in Udavi using the Montessori Cube. We are able to formulate (x + y + z)^3 = x^3 + y^3 +z^3 + 3x^2y + 3x^2z...

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Clay room

Painting Outside: Third graders took responsibility to paint outside. This being a room for clay and woodwork, we wanted to paint it with a natural brownish red-soil color. We inquired with a few painters and once they understood our idea, they all...

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Wooden Torch in Isai STEM land

In Isai Ambalam school children waned to make different types of lights to use it during sleep over. It took 2 to 3 weeks  to build a nice wooden torch. So they started cutting the bamboo during STEM land period. Once they...

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Multiplication with the 5th graders

We started the Vaughn cube Videos, after completing a few lessons the children took up specific multiplication tables and drew all the objects that they could remember. Multiplication become easier for Pranav who could link objects to sounds and then to numbers.

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Automating the bore well motor.

We had a serious  water problem in isai Ambalam school. We built a pond as a EBD project with the children. Then we realized that water is very precious. From that day we are aware of water. Then one day children noticed...

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